'If I was a writer, and dead," wrote Roland Barthes, "I would like my life to be reduced, thanks to the care of a friendly biographer, to a few details, a few tastes, a few inflections - let's call them biographemes".
Fortunately for me I was here twice, so on the second visit I managed a few tastes of dessert: Champagne jelly with citrus is a gorgeous palate-cleanser; sticky toffee pudding, rich and dense; and peanut butter shortbread with salty ice cream, kind of ideal.
But after a few tastes of chef Claude Taffarello's masterpiece, it was I who had the last laugh.
My main connection to getting a few tastes of Coca-Cola were through my Grandpa Day (his name was David Stallworth, but we called him Day).
The sauce was pretty thick, and after a few tastes, it left a heavy feeling in my mouth that coated my throat.
Kool-Aid is a relatively inexpensive drink, so it wouldn't do harm to make a few taste-test glasses to get the hang of it.
For example, per square centimetre on the tip of the tongue, some people may have only a few individual taste buds, whereas others may have more than one thousand; this variability contributes to differences in the taste sensations experienced by different people.
A few, though, taste it when they hear a particular word, such as "castanet".
We will be in the Bordeaux area for five days in September and would like to visit a few vineyards, taste some wines and buy a few bottles.
